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They're all for driving!!! But #1 Wife will sure be able to park the Dart easier than the Bird when out grocery shopping !! 
I'm a defector ! But 2 out of 3 B's ain't bad....
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Why in the name of all that is holy do you not have a RAM??
PS - AWESOME Dart. I'd love a 340 a-body 4 speed!
Trivia time: Did you know the 340 was the only engine of that era besides the hemi that was developed strictly for performance applications from the get-go?
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Last Dodge "truck" was the Wife's Durango.. I wouldn't touch another with a ten foot pole. Third F150 I've had over 17 years, nothing other than oil changes and brake pads and rotors.
I use that trivia nugget all the time. No 340 ever came in a 2 barrel carb!. It is an awesome engine!
(Haha, Hemi's didn't either. Can you imaging a Hemi with a 2 barrel carb on it!
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Who put the Mustang Fastback vents in the C pillar?
Bought a 97 Ram diesel in 2001 and still haven't done anything to it except for making sure the KDP was done...and it wasn't and was still ok but did the fix anyways and replaced the water pump while in there. Did replace the rear gears but I probably caused the original 3.54's to go bad doing burnouts with it lol. The 'lost and not going to find her' X still has the ordered new 2000 Durango with 5.2/3.92 geared limited slip with trailer tow package and fully loaded last I heard. Put new front pads on it @ 90k miles just before she left (just rolled over 100k) but the rears still looked good. She was always hard on brakes and this was the first vehicle that held up to her wretched driving style....
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(Haha, Hemi's didn't either. Can you imaging a Hemi with a 2 barrel carb on it!
Not true...
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I should have been more specific (although I'd have thought it obvious)...
Trivia time: Did you know the 340 was the only engine of that era besides the 2nd gen 426
hemi that was developed strictly for performance applications from the get-go?
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Right on.
Speaking of "17 years"... ol' Bert here has been with me that long without so much as
a whimper (2004 Ram SLT 4x4 hemi - in a fairly rare short bed/cab version):
Honestly, Ford hasn't made anything I'd trust in like 20 years now.
Yes, crap forgot about those. Like Ed, I'll blame that I was thinking about Gen 2 Hemi's!!!
Speaking of trivia: Weren't quite a few of those used to power generators, pumps, etc.? I have a faint memory of Hemis powering that kind of stuff. Am I mis-remembering?
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I have no idea who put those vents in the car. My initial thought was to remove them but if I build the car I will leave them and paint them body color I think with the slots painted black.
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Thanks! Nope, been an Ontario car for a long time. Restored / paint 10 years ago.
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I got my fill of Fords in the mid-70s when I had my fleet of 5 Mustangs! Dang some crazy stuff broke on those cars. One car the pedal rack came apart twice before I fixed it my way after the second time. The first time I fixed it was with so-called genuine Ford replacement parts. Things can get pretty wild quickly after going through the gears and on your last shift the pedal rack collapses on you sideways and then you get no brakes either or very little after standing on the pedal with both feet and bend the steering wheel with your arms trying to apply all the pressure you can to the brake!
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Won't let a Ford on the property except my 48 8N... My father was a Ford guy and I had to work on them, thus cannot stand them...
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It sure is pretty. I'm jelly...or however the kids say it.
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My dad had one of those. Guess who got to keep the dang thing running? Yep...
I liked it actually, comparably speaking to other old tractors, even though I could never talk
him into spending money on a proper PTO clutch setup.
Pop would be out bush hogging and get caught on a stump and the thing would lock down.
I'd have to fetch a 4x4 and pry him off the stump, him cussing and fuming...
Damn, I wish he were here to cuss at the thing now.
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